Interface with its Climate Take Back strategy and PayPal's mission to provide financial services to the underserved show how companies can prosper by putting social purpose at the heart of their brand propositions

Ford is embracing the evolution of the transportation sector, with car sharing ventures and ever more efficient designs. But in the global battle to sell cars in vast new markets, sustainability appears still to be a back-seat passenger

International Business Leaders head to New York this October to share experience in supplier engagement. The ‘How to Drive Supplier Social & Environmental Performance’ Conference is taking place at the New Yorker Hotel on 25-26 October 2011.

Policymakers must use the trillions of dollars they are preparing to inject into their economies to support efforts to tackle climate change, urges a coalition of 155 companies that have set science-based targets. Terry Slavin reports

Comment: With corporate lobbyists pushing for environmental deregulation amid the chaos of Covid-19, shareholder resolutions against companies endorsing such practices will be critical, says Lauren Compere of Boston Common Asset Management

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